Quotes from Carl Sagan
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
- Carl Sagan
Some 5 billion years from now, there will be a last perfect day on Earth... then the sun will begin to die, life will be extinguished, the oceans will boil and evaporate away.
- Carl Sagan
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
- Carl Sagan
It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.
- Carl Sagan
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
- Carl Sagan
In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!
- Carl Sagan
There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right: it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process.
- Carl Sagan
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue.
- Carl Sagan
I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.
- Carl Sagan
Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.
- Carl Sagan
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
- Carl Sagan
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.
- Carl Sagan